[SpecialEd]

Hit the only open water I could find today for a few hours. Found 2 healthy winter Smallmouth willing to eat a big Golden Roach a few feet under a slip-float. This is the smaller one:

The bigger one's piucture mysteriously never made it onto the memory card of my camera.

*note to self, just because the camera beeps at you when you press the capture button doesn't mean it took the picture. Sometimes it means your card is full......

Also found a nice hole holding an infinite number of hand sized bluegills, longears, and pumpkinseeds. They readily ate a 1/64 oz. ant-type ice jig with or without a T-boned waxie.

All fish Catch and Release, with only the occasional sorry looking, mooshy, Bass Pro Shops excuse for a waxworm making the ultimate sacrifice today.

Water Temp: 0 to 3 deg. C.
Air Temp: 2 to 4 deg. C.
Wind: N/NW 5 to 10 knots
Clarity: < 1 meter
Location: 78.3 Kilometers from Watertower Place
Equipment: Spinning Lite action, 6 lb. test, slip float, #6 red Octopus hook, black ice jig, Golden Roaches, waxworms.

[Marc]

Nice Demember smallmouth Ed! Great colors.

[SpecialEd]

*I almost forgot, if you look on the upper/center left side of the pic, you can see the remains of a mouse that this bass was puking up when I brought her in. That's also half digested mouse on my thumb in the fishes mouth.......



NEAT!

[Bearsfan]

SpecialEd wrote:

Hit the only open water I could find today for a few hours. Found 2 healthy winter Smallmouth willing to eat a big Golden Roach a few feet under a slip-float. This is the smaller one:

The bigger one's piucture mysteriously never made it onto the memory card of my camera.

*note to self, just because the camera beeps at you when you press the capture button doesn't mean it took the picture. Sometimes it means your card is full......

Also found a nice hole holding an infinite number of hand sized bluegills, longears, and pumpkinseeds. They readily ate a 1/64 oz. ant-type ice jig with or without a T-boned waxie.

All fish Catch and Release, with only the occasional sorry looking, mooshy, Bass Pro Shops excuse for a waxworm making the ultimate sacrifice today.

Water Temp: 0 to 3 deg. C.
Air Temp: 2 to 4 deg. C.
Wind: N/NW 5 to 10 knots
Clarity: < 1 meter
Location: 78.3 Kilometers from Watertower Place
Equipment: Spinning Lite action, 6 lb. test, slip float, #6 red Octopus hook, black ice jig, Golden Roaches, waxworms.

I'm gonna have to look for some of those .443 gram ant-type ice jigs.

Nice job Ed!

[FNG 1969]

Marc, did you notice how these Marine types give locations? We may need to have a block of instruction from Fishead Mike on Map reading at one of our outings.

Nice feeesh SpecialEd.

HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYZ!

Monk

[Legend075]

Great looking smallmouth Ed!. Man single digits degress a true warrior. Well done dude!

[Marc]

FNG 1969 wrote:

Marc, did you notice how these Marine types give locations? We may need to have a block of instruction from Fishead Mike on Map reading at one of our outings.

Nice feeesh SpecialEd.

HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYZ!

Monk

I didn't think anyone else noticed Monk. He could have thrown everyone off by making it 78.3 clicks from Watertower place.

Should we build a conversion chart?

[Chili]

A mile equals to 5280 feet. 1 foot = 0.3048 meter. The "mile" and the "nautical mile" are two different units. A nautical mile equals to 1852 meters.

1 Kilometer = Mile 0.621371192237334

Hope this helps.

PS Nice fish

[fshngmstr B II]

Nice smallie!!